Archive for January 4th, 2009
Back to work
I would say it’s been a great two weeks off, but I’d be lying. As two weeks holiday go, I think this one has been the worst I can recall. There have been a few highlights (visiting family and a few friends) but not as many as I’d have liked (visiting _more_ friends!) and I [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2009 under Life Rants.
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grub – Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory
Diagnosing a corruption issue just before Christmas, I used “memtest86+” as usual. However instead of booting, the PC just said: “Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory”. Fortunately this is covered by [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=319837 this Debian bug]. It’s still not been fixed, in the meantime you can grab this [http://www.smop.co.uk/files/memtest precompiled] memtest86+ ELF binary (not [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2009 under Linux.
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